'No idea what that means': Anderson Cooper confounded by Trump aide's 'sucked in' theory

CNN’s Anderson Cooper had a hard time following the logic behind National Security Adviser Mike Waltz’s novel explanation of how journalist Jeffrey Goldberg’s contact information landed on his phone.

On Wednesday, Cooper took viewers of his CNN show “Anderson Cooper 360” through a rundown of the timeline of excuses delivered by Waltz and President Donald Trump as they spent the first part of the week explaining away the latest controversy to hit the administration.

“If you have somebody else's contact and then it and then somehow gets sucked in…it gets sucked in,” Waltz said in a Fox News interview on Tuesday.

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The clarification for how The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief made it into Waltz’s phone left Cooper seeking further clarification.

“It gets sucked in? I have no idea what that means,” the CNN host said. “Does he mean Goldberg’s contact somehow got sucked into his phone, or it got sucked into the chat?” he added quizzically.

The comments came just after Cooper walked his audience through Trump saying during a Newsmax interview that it was “a lower level” staffer at fault for the debacle.

Cooper pointed out that Waltz “said the exact opposite" and admitted responsibility.

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